Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field

In Reforming Women, Lisa Shaver locates the emergence of a distinct women’s rhetoric and feminist consciousness in the American Female Moral Reform Society. E

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th C.

Reforming the World considers the intricate relationship between social reform and spiritual elevation and the development of fiction in the antebellum United S

Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center fo